"It pays 100 per cent. to be polite to everyone, from the garbage gatherer to the governor."
"If you wish that your own merit should be recognized, recognize the merits of others."
"If you cannot be happy in one way, be happy in another; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humor are almost the whole affair. Many run about after felicity, like an absent man hunting for his hat while it is on his head or in his hand. Such persons want nothing to make them the happiest people in the world but the knowledge that they are so."
"An Atchison woman, who three days ago was considered the most popular woman in town, has not one friend left; instead of sympathizing with her friends, as she has heretofore, she began telling them her troubles."
Atchison Globe.
It is the characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and to forget one's own.